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15 Jul 04 - 12:51 PM (#1226211) Subject: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: frogprince Honest, I didn't just make this title up; I used to hear the song somewhere, perhaps on WFMT Chicago. I thought I remembered that it was by Steve Goodman, but if so he must not have recorded it on a regular release; I can't find a sign of it anywhere. Who knows the lyric, and where it really came from? |
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15 Jul 04 - 01:01 PM (#1226222) Subject: RE: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: Charlie Baum The website http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimmy-buffett/71925.html attributes it to Jimmy Buffett. |
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16 Jul 04 - 12:40 PM (#1227012) Subject: RE: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: GUEST,frogprince Thanks, Charlie, but that's not it; the entire song I'm looking for is built around the goofy title premise. |
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16 Jul 04 - 12:49 PM (#1227015) Subject: RE: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: GUEST,GUEST,Tinker in Chicago It's "The Waterbed Polka" a.k.a. "The Waterbed Was Filled With Glue The Night That I Got Stuck With You Polka" by Larry Rand. As far as I know he never recorded it, but WFMT played it from a tape they made in 1972. I don't remember all the words but here are some: I thought you was a hippie 'cuz you dressed that way. I shoulda known them shopping bags sure gave you away. But your Peter Max babushka misled me, dear, it's true. The waterbed was filled with glue the night that I got stuck with you polka. I'm not in touch with Larry (if you're a Midnight Special fan, then you may have heard of my group, Molly & the Tinker) but a decent Google search might help, or maybe another Chicago folksinger knows. |
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16 Jul 04 - 03:35 PM (#1227130) Subject: RE: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: Phil Cooper If you email folk@midnightspecial.org you may get more information about Larry's song. |
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16 Jul 04 - 04:18 PM (#1227161) Subject: RE: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: GUEST,frogprince Bingo, thanks! I've been out of reach of WFMT now for 20 years, and don't have broadband net, but I have about 20 years of fond memory of the "Midnight Special"; I sustain myself now on the Matt Watroba's excellent "Folks Like Us" Saturday afternoons on WDET Detroit. |
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29 Oct 04 - 02:35 PM (#1310767) Subject: RE: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: MMario hey frogprince! did you ever get these lyrics, and if so, can you post them? |
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29 Oct 04 - 06:03 PM (#1310972) Subject: RE: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: frogprince MMario, I didn't get them, but since you reminded me I just went with Phil Coopers suggestion above and e-mailed the Midnight Special crew to see if they'll send em. |
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30 Oct 04 - 06:28 PM (#1311730) Subject: RE: the water bed was filled with glue polka From: GUEST,Larry Rand I gave "frogprince" the lyrics to "The Waterbed Polka." I'm at larryrand@surfcity.net in sunny California if ever another profound libretto crisis requires intervention. |
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30 Oct 04 - 07:07 PM (#1311763) Subject: Lyr Add: WATERBED POLKA (Larry Rand) From: frogprince Here are the lyrics to the Waterbed Polka, with one caveat: the song has never been commercially recorded (Bryan Bowers kept threatening to, but chickened out), so you would need my permission to do so. Thirty years after its composition, it has a nice Ken Kesey acid flashback aura, and I believe it's as socially impertinent today as it was the evening I composed it. No one may have gone broke underestimating the taste of the American public, but many of us have done so exposing it. Best regards, Larry Rand "The Waterbed Polka" Words & Music by Larry Rand Copyright 1973 My name is Stash, I am hip, I got class and pride, I run the only head shop On Chicago's Nort'west Side - But now I sing a different tune, Somethin' I been through: CHORUS "The Waterbed Was Filled With Glue, The Night That I Got Stuck With You, Polka." I thought you was a hippie, Because you dressed that way - I shoulda known, those shopping bags Sure gave you away - But a Peter Max babushka Misled me, dear, it's true: CHORUS (THROBBING POLKA INTERLUDE) When I talk about that evening, Other people scoff - About the time we got it on, and Couldn't get it off! I won't admit to bein' black, but Boy, I sure am blue: CHORUS, REPEAT CHORUS |
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15 Mar 12 - 05:37 AM (#3323096) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waterbed Polka (Larry Rand) From: GUEST,Larry Rand The song was finally recorded properly, with an accordion and oompah band rhythm section, on "Deep Dish Folk," the CD I recorded with Nicole Mendyk that's available @ CD Baby. |
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16 Mar 12 - 11:52 AM (#3323694) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waterbed Polka (Larry Rand) From: GUEST Thank you all. I had this song stuck in the back of my head. I coul have almost sung the enitre song from memory. I had a tape from an Al Lerner broadcast that played this song. I don't know if that cassette still exists... |
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19 Nov 21 - 04:20 AM (#4126683) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Waterbed Polka (Larry Rand) From: GUEST,guest John Anthony La Pietra I think I still have a recording (on cassette!) of a WFMT "Midnight Special" performance of this number . . . complete with a dedication to "the Honorable -- that's a little nickname we give to all our politicians -- the Honorable Roman C. Pucinski . . . a man so beloved on the Nort'west side of Chicaguh that we don't even call him Roman C. Pucinski; we have a special name for him: the Magnetic Nort'west Pole. . . ." I'll have to look for it now that I've found this -- and learned that I'd misunderstood the title. (I'd always thought that the title ended with the name of the subject/target of the song -- a woman named, however improbably, "Polga". . . .) |